By co-launching the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, Actuate wants to take away some of the complexity from hand-coding reports using JavaServer Pages.

Actuate, which sells reporting software, also said it has become a board member of the Eclipse open-source foundation and will dedicate at least seven engineers to the planned project.

Actuate initiated the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project in September 2004 to create an open-source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on ...

Not all communities are created alike. Nor should they be, as Actuate shows.

BIRT was published for community review Tuesday and is now in a 30-day review cycle, during which community members can provide feedback on the project, Coggins said.

The new Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project ultimately will give developers an open-source alternative to built-in reporting services found in Microsoft Visual Studio. "This ...

After joining the Eclipse Foundation, the company launches a project to create open-source business intelligence and reporting tools.

Seeking to offer an industry standard for report development, the open source Eclipse Foundation on Monday is releasing Version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project ...

By co-launching the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, Actuate wants to take away some of the complexity from hand-coding reports using JavaServer Pages.

Actuate executives on Tuesday said that BIRT would be the first open-source project dedicated to business intelligence and reporting. They said that BIRT project members would create reporting ...